Other Views: Boeing freed by NLRB

Posted: December 16, 2011 - 1:28am

“The Obama administration was saved from yet another pre-election embarrassment late last week when the National Labor Relations Board dropped its suit against Boeing’s efforts to build an aircraft manufacturing plant in South Carolina. ... The union had charged that Boeing wanted to open the new plant in South Carolina in retaliation for past union strikes at its Washington state plant. And since the Obama-era NLRB is a wholly-owned toady of organized labor, it accepted at face value the union’s allegations. Of course, Boeing in the end was held hostage until it ransomed its North Charleston plant by approving a new four-year contract with the Machinists in Washington state where the firm also promised to build a new version of the 737 aircraft. And, not surprisingly, the Machinists dropped their bogus charges. And that’s really at the heart about how this particular cast of characters at the NLRB operates. ... Anywhere else it would be called thuggery. But under this administration — with its every move favoring its organized union base — it’s called justice.”